scăpa
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, a verb based on Late Latin cappa (“cloak”). Compare Aromanian scap, scãpari.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]a scăpa (third-person singular present scapă, past participle scăpat) 1st conj.
- (transitive) to drop (let fall by mistake)
- Să nu scapi paharul.
- Do not drop the glass.
- Am adunat opt ouă, însă am scăpat unul și acum sunt doar șapte.
- I gathered eight eggs, but I dropped one and now there’s only seven.
- (intransitive) to fall down from one’s hand [with dative]
- Nici nu știu cum mi-au scăpat banii din mână.
- I don’t even know how the money fell from my hand.
- În canale se acumulează diferite lucruri care le scapă trecătorilor.
- Drains accumulate various things that drop from passers-by.
- (intransitive, relatively informal) to rescue oneself, get away from danger
- a scăpa cu viață ― to escape with one’s life
- Dintre pasagerii Titanicului, mai puțin de o treime au scăpat.
- Of all passengers of the Titanic, less than a third survived.
- (transitive, now informal) to rescue, get out, help out
- (intransitive, now informal) to escape, get free, get away
- E extrem de greu să scapi din Coreea de Nord.
- It is extremely difficult to escape North Korea.
- Porcul a scăpat în curte.
- The pig got out into the yard.
- (intransitive or reflexive, informal) to no longer need to deal with something unpleasant, whether past or potential [with de]
- Elevii de clasa a noua sunt ușurați că au scăpat de Evaluarea Națională.
- Ninth graders are relieved to be done with the high school entrance exam.
- Cu diagnosticul potrivit scapi de serviciul militar.
- With the right diagnosis you won’t have to deal with military service.
- Mai bine fac totul cât mai repede ca să mă scap.
- I’d rather get everything done as quickly as possible in order to get it over with.
- (intransitive, informal, figurative) to escape someone, to go unnoticed, to go under one’s radar [with dative]
- Bine că mi-ai arătat cum să reglez temperatura; altfel mie sigur mi-ar fi scăpat.
- Good thing you showed me how to adjust the temperature; it would have surely went under my radar otherwise.
- Problema asta pare imposibilă; cred că ceva ne scapă.
- This problem seems impossible; I believe something is escaping us.
- 1946, Lucian Blaga, chapter 48, in George Ivașcu, editor, Hronicul și cîntecul vîrstelor [Chronicle and song of the ages], first edition, Bucharest: Editura Tineretului, published 1965, page 251:
- Cornelia îmi comunica, într-un ton, informativ iarăși — și acest ton nu putea să-mi scape — că […]
- Cornelia notified me, again in an informative tone—and this tone couldn’t go unnoticed by me—that […]
- (reflexive or intransitive, informal) to get rid of something or someone [with de ‘of’]
- (transitive, informal) to rid someone of something or someone [with de ‘of’]
- (intransitive with dative or transitive; of countable manifestations of emotions) to (be) let out, to manifest
- 1954 July 7, Vasile Mihăilescu, “Doi Tovarăși [Two Comrades]”, in Scînteia Tineretului [Scânteia of the Youth][1], year 10, number 1616, Bucharest, page 2:
- Deabia spuse aceste cuvinte, cînd scăpă un geamăt slab și se întinse pe pătură.
- [De-abia spuse aceste cuvinte, când scăpă un geamăt slab și se întinse pe pătură.]
- Scarcely said he these words, when he let out a weak groan and laid on the blanket.
- 1967 May, Radu Petrescu, “Drumuri [Roads]”, in Viața Romînească [Romanian Life], year 20, number 5, Bucharest, page 54; published collectively as Matei Iliescu (novel), 1970, page 100:
- Atunci îi scăpă o lacrimă care îi alunecă, arzîndu-i obrajii, pe bărbie în jos.
- Then did he let fall a tear, which fell, burning his cheeks, down his chin.
- 1999, Mircea Danieluc, chapter 5, in Marilena și cîteva voluptăți [Marilena and a few pleasures], Bucharest: Univers, →ISBN, page 221:
- Evocîndu-l pe Paul, Marilena Puică scăpă un oftat.
- Evoking Paul, Marilena Puică let out a sigh.
- (intransitive, informal, of things one isn’t supposed to say) to slip out [with dative]
- Prezentatorului i-au scăpat câteva remarci nepotrivite în direct.
- The presenter had a few inappropriate remarks slip out while live.
- (chiefly reflexive, often catenative, informal) to let slip (say something one shouldn’t have)
- (reflexive, informal, often euphemistic) to be unable to contain one’s excretion, especially under duress
- (transitive, of an opportunity or occasion) to miss, fail to profit from
- (transitive, informal, now rare) to miss (not reach in time)
- 1950, Eusebiu Camilar, chapter 10, in Negura [The fog], volume 2, Editura de Stat, page 88:
- Trecu repede pe lângă santinelă, ca un călător grăbindu-se să nu scape trenul.
― Stai ! Unde ? întrebă un glas mânios de sub cască și Bart răspunse din mers :
― Lasă… fii om… scap trenul…- He quickly passed the sentinel by, like a traveller rushing in order not to miss the train.
“Halt! To where?” asked an angry voice from under a helmet, and Bart answered without stopping:
“Don’t bother… have mercy… I’m missing my train.”
- He quickly passed the sentinel by, like a traveller rushing in order not to miss the train.
- (transitive, rare) to relax and lower a body part
- (intransitive, now rare) to flee
- (transitive, regional, agriculture) to neglect to perform an operation on a crop and thus spoil its output
- (impersonal, catenative, regional) to feel like [with dative]
- Synonym: îi veni
Conjugation
[edit] conjugation of scăpa (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive | a scăpa | ||||||
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gerund | scăpând | ||||||
past participle | scăpat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | scap | scapi | scapă | scăpăm | scăpați | scapă | |
imperfect | scăpam | scăpai | scăpa | scăpam | scăpați | scăpau | |
simple perfect | scăpai | scăpași | scăpă | scăparăm | scăparăți | scăpară | |
pluperfect | scăpasem | scăpaseși | scăpase | scăpaserăm | scăpaserăți | scăpaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să scap | să scapi | să scape | să scăpăm | să scăpați | să scape | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | scapă | scăpați | |||||
negative | nu scăpa | nu scăpați |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- scăpa in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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